[Fwd: gkrellmwireless-2.0.2_7 failed on amd64 7]

[Sam Leffler]

Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>   
>> Hey list,
>>
>> a bunch of ports broke on recent CURRENT, similar to the log below.
>> Who's responsible for this change - who should I nag to fix the ports?
>>     
>
> The commit that caused this is 
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2007-July/226628.html
>
> by thompsa. 
>
> The log says that the ioctls that used to be used by wicontrol were
> removed. It seems that several applications relied on this interface
> (even in the case of non-wi cards/chips) probably because this used to
> be one of the first such interfaces on FreeBSD and then just continued
> working (TM).  Unfortunately some öof the affected apps are esentially
> abandoned (eg wmwifi) so I have no idea if the port maintainer can fix
> them alone. But it would be nice, because now it is really hard to find
> any wlan signal monitoring apps for FreeBSD apart from Gnome/KDE applets.
>   

The old wi ioctl's have been deprecated for a very long time.  There are 
replacements that should be used instead.  The easiest thing to do is 
crib code from ifconfig.

    Sam